>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 PM, in message
<FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062B59(at)egcrc-ex01(dot)egcrc(dot)org>, "Tena Sakai"
<tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> On my linux machine, gnu tar is the tar. Does
> anybody have a suggestion as to where I can go
> to get a tar that is not gnu?
Have you considered using cpio instead?
http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
-Kevin